Cyber Security Engineer I

Why work for the Los Angeles Unified School District?

If you consider yourself a Cyber Security Expert and are looking to grow your career in Information Technology then LAUSD may have the job for you!

Come be a part of 600+ staff member division who are professional, forward thinking and create an environment that challenges you to reach your potential. LAUSD’s Information Technology Division (ITD) supports a range of technologies from personal systems to enterprise-wide systems and applications.

Highlights of the role include:

• 10 vacation days a year plus a generous sick time policy
• Fully-paid medical/dental/vision premiums for employee and dependents
• 12 paid holidays – yes that is in addition to the 10 vacation days!
• Pension plan through membership in the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Pay is up to $54 an hour
• Plus, many more!

A Snapshot about the Role

• Analyzing, monitoring, and correlating security event information from logs, endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, across multiple systems, applications, and users to detect and mitigate external and internal threats.
• Regularly monitoring network security devices and systems to identify false positives and performing tuning to collect the right cyber security-related events
• Monitoring, installing, and upgrading security devices and controls that manage the flow of information between networks of different trust levels in order to prevent attackers from exploiting District information assets.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining messaging systems to identify malicious email attacks and correlate email telemetry with wider security events, behavior analytics, and other threat information to determine if a cyber-attack has occurred, is occurring, or will occur